Socialist Faction of the Ionian Islands

The Socialist Faction was an informal grouping of socialist politicians in the United States of the Ionian Islands that was active from 1860 to 1864. The Socialist Faction was founded in 1860 by Marxist laborers and intellectuals on the Ionian Islands, and it emerged as both a reaction to the spread of Marxism across Europe and the unfair trade agreements with the United Kingdom and the Austrian Empire. The Socialist Faction supported an end to foreign trade, a planned economy, secularism, full citizenship for all Ionians, and a strong military. The faction dissolved when Greece annexed the islands in 1864.